What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. The information stored in it can be sent back to our servers on a future visit.

How do we use cookies?

Cookies enable a website to function properly and provide insight into visitor behavior. This information helps improve our web services and your user experience. Cookies do not pose a risk to your computer's security.

What types of cookies do we use?

Use of permanent cookies
With the help of a permanent cookie, we can recognise you on a return visit to our website. This allows the website to be tailored to your preferences. If you have given permission for the use of cookies, we can remember this via a cookie so you don't have to set your preferences again each time. Permanent cookies can be removed via your browser settings.

Use of session cookies
Session cookies allow us to monitor which web pages you visit during a browsing session and which options you use on the site. We use this data to optimise our website for your convenience. We use HubSpot for this purpose. You can read HubSpot’s privacy statement [here].
Session cookies are only active during your visit to the website and are automatically deleted when you close your internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox).

With session cookies, we can see which parts of our website you have viewed during your visit. This helps us tailor the site to our users' needs. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Tracking cookies from ourselves

With your consent, we place a cookie on your device that can be accessed when you visit websites in our network. This enables us to determine whether you have also visited other websites in our network. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, email address or similar data, but is used solely to tailor advertisements to your interests as much as possible.

Tracking cookies from our advertisers

With your consent, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your device. These cookies allow them to track which pages you visit within their network, to build a profile of your online browsing behaviour. This profile is also based on similar data from your visits to other websites in their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address or similar data, but is only intended to tailor adverts to your interests.

Google Analytics

Our website uses a cookie from the American company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to monitor and report on how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties where legally required to do so, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. We have no control over this. We have not authorised Google to use the analytics data for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymised as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not included. The data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is registered with the Privacy Shield programme of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This implies an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

Social media buttons

Our website includes social media buttons to promote or share web pages (e.g. “like” or “tweet”) on networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. These buttons use code provided by Facebook, Twitter, etc. That code places cookies. We have no control over this. Please read the respective privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter (which may change regularly) to learn what they do with your (personal) data collected via these cookies.

The information collected is anonymised as far as possible. The data is transmitted to and stored by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. These parties state that they adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are registered with the Privacy Shield programme of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This implies an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

Right to access, correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. Please see our contact page for this. To prevent abuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. If your request relates to access to personal data linked to a cookie, please send a copy of the relevant cookie. You can find this in your browser settings.

Enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies

More information about enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or help function of your browser.

Deleting tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who display advertisements on our website, among others. These cookies can be removed centrally via Your Online Choices so that they are not reinstated by a third-party website.

More information about cookies

You can find more information about cookies on the following website: www.aboutcookies.org

Updating our cookie policy

This cookie policy may be amended from time to time to reflect changes and their impact on data collection and management. If changes are made to this document, the date at the bottom will indicate when it was last updated. We reserve the right to alter our practices and the terms of this cookie policy and to apply those changes to all your data. By visiting our website, you agree to the current terms of this cookie policy.

October 2020